Page Updates

From the Notepad of Free Youth Editor James Russell.

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01/14/00
Updated my site, added a Free Mumia graphic and joined two more webrings, the Brian Deneke Memorial webring and the Teen Anarchist webring. Miscellaneous code errors fixed too.
01/07/00
I replied by email to the accusations of "libel" from Focus Adolescent Services. Despite persistent letters of reminder, I have recieved no reply. It seems they are not as interested in this "libel" case as they initially claimed to be.
01/05/00
After putting up the main page, I went back and made sure all the back issues linked up with everything else, and changed all the emails around from the old one to the new one, jrussell@wnec.edu
01/04/00
After months of delay (is there a pattern here? :-) , Free Youth Issue #3 is up for the first quarter of 2000! More articles will be appended to this issue soon. Redirected emails to my school account at jrussell@wnec.edu.
12/17/99
I was interviewed on WMUA 91.1 FM about the WTO and youth rights.
11/30/99
I delivered a speech on child labor at Amherst Anti-WTO Rally.
09/15/99
Did the first update of Free Youth in a long time, editing some spelling and grammatical errors and updating the HTML. The new issue should be coming out soon. Automatically redirected emails sent to Free youth's former address at freeyouth@apexmail.com to the new address at Oblivion, fyi@oblivion.net.
09/12/99
A section of Free Youth's article on the Juvenile Justice Bill was quoted in the most recent issue of the Freedom Voice, a youth rights newspaper from NCRA-YLA.
08/06/99
Added more songs to the lyrics archive.
08/02/99
Fixed the two broken links to articles. Added a FREE KEVIN link to the main page.
07/27/99
After weeks of delays the second issue of Free Youth Internet is out! Issue #1 was moved to a "back issues" archive. More lyrics added as well. HitBox has been removed - this is now a Cookies-free site. Editing was done to fix spelling and factual errors on back articles from issue one.
06/23/99
Posted FYI's URL to relevant usenet discussion groups and listserv's
06/22/99
Added yet more links and activated the webring, fixed the error in the lyrics links. FYI's hit count is growing, thanks to everyone who has visited
06/17/99
FYI joined the National Youth Rights Alliance webring. Fixed some obnoxious typos and layout errors, as well as dead links.
06/14/99
Completely transferred all the files to the Oblivion server, and placed a redirect at FYI's former location.
06/13/99
The zine Oblivion is going to be hosting FYI on it's server! The new URL will be http://www.oblivion.net/fyi The FYI introduction and FAQ were also added, as well as an editorial about the new Juvenile Justice bill.
06/07/99
Posted my URL to many search engines
06/06/99
Submitted my page to the Internet Zine archive as well as other activists and youth rights organizations. Publicized it at the IAC march for peace. I added some new links as well as graphics "courtesy" of ASI.
06/04/99
New title graphic and Javascript applets, edited the cover story. All the lyrics are now referenced in an archive. I started a new email account for FreeYouth at Apexmail, and can now be contacted at FreeYouth@apexmail.com. I updated the :mailto links on all the pages
05/29/99
Added a guestbook and Hitbox counter. Fixed typos and slight layout changes
05/27/99
Free Youth Internet is up! I posted the first set of articles. The first print 'zine edition of FYI should be coming out soon. If you have any suggestions for improvement or would like to help please email me at FreeYouth@apexmail.com

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